New Approaches and Concepts in Microbiology

Overview

For late registration please contact Lea Hohmann

The bus schedule is available here, the on-site handout here, and the poster session overview (here: alphabetical order, and by session )

Symposium Overview

This symposium will cover a broad range of topics in microbiology, including antibiotic-related research, bacterial communities and microbiome, cell biology, regulation & signalling, pathogenesis and evolution. Emphasis will be placed on novel approaches and technologies (from systems-based to single-cell) that drive each field or have the potential to revolutionise future research in microbiology.

This meeting is the fourth of its kind, part of a successful series which started in 2013 and held biannually since, becoming a must-attend event for scientists working with bacteria and new technologies. The focus remains on the interface of new technologies and new biology in bacteria, but the thematic areas change and speaker line-ups do not overlap between consecutive symposia.

This symposium aims at bridging the gap between traditional microbiology and novel technologies, by exposing microbiologists to new ways of addressing their hypotheses. At the same time, it provides a platform for systems or technology experts to get a better understanding of the important questions in the field.

Session Topics

• Bacterial systems biology
• Cell biology & protein machineries
• Regulation, signalling & transcriptional networks
• Pathogenesis & infection
• Antibiotic action-resistance-persistance
• Microbial communities / microbiotas / symbiosis
• Evolution & ecology

Speakers

Speakers and Trainers

Speakers

David Bikard

Institut Pasteur

France

Sebastian Bonhoeffer

ETH Zürich

Switzerland

Carmen Buchrieser

Institut Pasteur

France

Ivan Dikic

University of Frankfurt

Germany

Eran Elinav

Weizmann Institute of Science

Israel

Tobias Erb

Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology

Germany

Kevin Foster

University of Oxford

UK

Mark Goulian

University of Pennsylvania

USA

Regine Hengge

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Germany

Kirsten Jung

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Germany

Dan Kahne

Harvard University

USA

Satoshi Kimura

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

USA

Joseph Mougous

University of Washington

USA

Roy Kishony

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Israel

Dianne Newman

California Institute of Technology

USA

Tracy Palmer

Newcastle University

UK

Csaba Pál

Biological Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Hungary

Eric Pamer

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

USA

Mariana Gomes de Pinho

Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica

Portugal

Uwe Sauer

ETH Zürich

Switzerland

Natalie Strydanka

University of British Columbia

Canada

Nora Vazquez-Laslop

University of Illinois

USA

Jan-Willem Veening

University of Lausanne

Switzerland

Jörg Vogel

Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research

Germany

Jade Wang

University of Wisconsin-Madison

USA

Scientific Organisers

Pascale Cossart

Institut Pasteur

France

KC Huang

Stanford University

USA

Michael Laub

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

USA

Nassos Typas

EMBL Heidelberg

Germany

Conference Organisers

Lea Hohmann

EMBL Heidelberg

Germany

Programme